Daniel Glattauer's epistolary novel Love Virtually became an international bestseller. But unless you were among the many thousands desperate to know whether German cyber-flirts Emmi (35, married with two step-children) and Leo (fortyish, engaged to an American named Pam) would ever summon up the resolve to meet in person, you're unlikely to find much friction in the follow-up, which takes the form of an endless "no, you hang up first" conversation: "We've been saying goodbye for a year and a half. It seems as if we got to know each other just so that we can say goodbye." Their continued attempts to write each other into bed become so wearing you long for a third voice to intervene which, thankfully, it does, when Emmi's husband discovers what is going on, though her decision to print out the entire correspondence and stash it in a drawer seems quite foolhardy in the circumstances. Leo's excuse for not telling his fiancee sums up the problem of sequels: "I couldn't start in the middle. Either you tell crazy stories like ours from the beginning or not at all."